Super cool women doing neat things on bikes

http://www.cyclingnews.com/features.php?id=features/2009/women_cycling_mar09

Not *on *bikes but an interesting piece.

Heroin
AH! So that's why she crashed!

Surprised no one has mentioned Ines Brunn...aaamaaaazing...

I thought she'd already been mentioned!

AH! So that's why she crashed!

Literal lol.

Talking of heroin, Nico, one of the coolest women of all time, died while riding her bike, which was sad.

[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nico[/ame]

just before her death she had managed to kick the habit and had embarked on a regimen of exercise and healthy eating.

On 18 July 1988, while on holiday with her son in Ibiza, Spain, Nico had a minor heart attack while riding a bicycle and hit her head as she fell. A passing taxi driver found her unconscious and had difficulty getting her admitted to local hospitals. She was incorrectly diagnosed as suffering from heat-exposure and died the next day. X-rays later revealed a severe cerebral hemorrhage as the cause of death.

Damn!

Surprised no one has mentioned Ines Brunn...aaamaaaazing...

YouTube - Fixed Gear Bike Tricks by Ines Brunn on an Artistic Bicycle

that is all brilliant, but from 2 minutes on it is seriously amazing. interestingly all going anti-clockwise.

"A member of the Dutch resistance shows how during the war she as a courier transported underground newspapers."

(WW II)
"Roadside conversation between jeep and bicycle; part of the warm welcome in Provence."

Awesome

+2 to that.

Pooley and Cooke are doing wonders on the road. Right at the top of their game and all the press bang on about is Lance-bloody-Armstrong.

+\infty

I don't really follow cycle sport, nor am I a feminist (women chained to bed is fine with me) but this is ridiculous that her progress is not plastered everywhere across the news during the entire event,. British woman fucking owning this event and not a peep but the one balled wonder comes back and it's all Lance, this Lance that, Lance my fucking boil!

Disgraceful

Disgruntled and dismayed of Woolwich

TB(T)

P.S There's more.

How the fuck are girls meant to be inspired into riding when this is not published?

Women know your fucking limits.

Women know your fucking limits.

Absolutely none?

Absolutely none?

I thought it was peeing standing up then I saw the shewee.

Un-fucking-believable!

Pooly has won the Grande Boucle Feminine (TDF for laydeez)
Cooke has won the Giro del Trentino

I'm always impressed by women and men carrying kids in child seats. It looks incredibly difficult getting on without the bike tipping over.

I think possibly my earliest memory is being propelled out of the child seat when my Mum came off the bike on black ice. Into a ditch full of stinging nettles. She never drove and we lived in the middle of nowhere, so we each had a few years in the childseat before we could cycle ourselves. Never traumatised me, though…

My mum used to carry me around in a child seat too. Apparently, I used to fall asleep a lot, and, my being a pretty big baby, the first she would know about it was when the bike would veer sideways as I lolled to one side.

My mum used to carry me around in a child seat too. Apparently, I used to fall asleep a lot, and, my being a pretty big baby, the first she would know about it was when the bike would veer sideways as I lolled to one side.

Ha!

+1 I lolled reading that.

jenna magill
NZ downhill champion and was also on the worlds circuit
2008 CMWC champion
worked with her at urgent couriers, auckland
jolly good sort

My mum used to carry me around in a child seat too. Apparently, I used to fall asleep a lot, and, my being a pretty big baby, the first she would know about it was when the bike would veer sideways as I lolled to one side.

broke my little leg ouside hampton court palace when i was five after it got caught in the spokes of my mums bike whilst sitting in an 80s death trap child's seat. 2 months in a wheel chair FTW!

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/cooke-wins-10th-national-road-title

Nicole Cooke GTW!

My favourite rider--by far.

Herne Hill

Evelyn Hamilton (far right) 20s /30s

check out the proto hipster, and just for fun:-

mad skillz!

Great pics.

Seconded.